ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI/LEAKS: “Anthony Scaramucci, President Trump’s new communications director, vowed on Tuesday [7-25-17] to crack down on leaks from the White House, threatening to fire everyone in the press office if necessary to stop aides from disclosing West Wing business to reporters.
‘I’m going to fire everybody — that’s how,’ Mr. Scaramucci told reporters in the White House driveway, asked how he planned to identify who had been leaking to the press and ensure that the disclosures stopped. He said he had authority directly from Mr. Trump to do so.
‘You’re either going to stop leaking, or you’re going to get fired,’ he said.
‘If I’ve got to get the thing down to me and Sarah Huckabee, then the leaking will stop,’ he added, referring to Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the newly named press secretary who stepped in after Sean Spicer resigned last week in protest of Mr. Scaramucci’s hiring.
The White House has been rocked since its earliest days by a leaky West Wing where warring factions of aides and advisers have routinely litigated their internal disputes in the press, leading to unflattering disclosures about senior members of Mr. Trump’s team and the president himself. Mr. Scaramucci’s threats appeared intended to reassure Mr. Trump that the problem would subside, although there is little evidence that the deep rifts within his inner circle have been resolved.”
-Julie Hirschfeld Davis, “Scaramucci on Leaks: ‘I’m Going to Fire Everybody’,” The New York Times online, July 25, 2017